Azure Presales Solution Architect at Signal Alliance

About the job

• The Azure Pre-Sales Solution Architect role exists within Cloudsa Africa - a subsidiary company of SATH.
• The role is responsible for advancing Azure adoption and consumption and the ideal person must be able to engage C Suite Executives and other technical and non technical stakeholders about Azure solutions and its benefits.
• The aim is to drive Azure solution sales and enhance the purchase decisions of both existing and potential customers.

Responsibilities:

• Deliver product presentations and demonstrations to prove the company's ability to meet the cloud adoption needs of prospective customers.
• Showcase propositions about Microsoft Azure solutions to existing and potential customers via online webinars, workshops and other platforms that are available for such engagements.
• Work with customers on their Microsoft cloud adoption strategy and drive sales for the company's Azure business area.
• Engage customers on a long-term basis and drive Microsoft Azure adoption within the customers' space.
• Understand customers’ specific cloud solution needs and show superior understanding of Azure solutions to customers with the aim of driving sales opportunity.

Qualifications, Skills & Experience

• Bachelor's Degree or equivalent.
• Minimum of 5 years experience in similar role.
• Experience with Microsoft 365, Migrations, Security, and Cloud Strategy.
• Data Centre transformation experience – migration of applications, virtual machines, and databases in a pre-sales capacity.
• Pre-sales background or technical Azure background.
• Knowledge of Assessment, assessment tools and methodology.
• Proven knowledge with Azure IaaS (networking, storage, database, applications, virtual machines).
• Proven knowledge with Azure Backup & Recovery Services.
• Proven knowledge with Azure Governance (Blueprints, policies, tagging, cost management)
• Proven knowledge with Azure SQL (Managed Instances & PaaS).
• Proven knowledge with Azure Security (Sentinel, Security Centre, Defender, ACL, Azure Firewall, Policy).
• Proven knowledge with Azure Serverless and integration (Batch, Function\Logic Apps etc).
• Proven knowledge with Azure ACR, ACI, Kubernetes.
• Proven knowledge with Azure AD including on premises Active Directory.
• Able to produce high quality and professional presentations.
• Strong verbal, written, and Communication skills.